The Trump Administration has appealed a District Court decision
ordering the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to collect pay
data from employers by September 30, 2019. In announcing the appeal
on its website, the EEOC advised employers that the appeal did not
affect the September due date.
The Department of Justice filed the notice of appeal on May 3,
2019. A day earlier, the EEOC had announced that it would collect
2017 and 2018 pay data beginning in mid-July and that employers had
until September 30 to submit the pay data.
The EEOC reinstated the data collection after a
federal court in the District of Columbia concluded that the Trump
Administration's 2017 decision to "stay" the data
collection was improper. Since issuing the initial decision on
March 4, 2019, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan has been
holding hearings to ensure compliance with the court's order
and to establish a timeline for the data collection. On April 25,
2019, Judge Chutkan
